The Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM is part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V. - the world’s leading applied research organization. We are engaged in research and development in the three divisions of Chemistry, Energy and Diagnostics.

The Division DIAGNOSTICS deals is mainly dealing with analytical and diagnostic systems for personalized healthcare, patient monitoring and with environmental analysis, particularly in form of pathogen detection, water analysis and nanotoxicology. Our main target is the miniaturization and automation of complex laboratory procedures and equipment to give access to a wide range of biological data of a specimen very fast and directly on-site.